Ancient Sages Quotes

#1. The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended up making their hearers wise.

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Jonathan Swift

#3. You're not good or bad
You're just on your way at your own speed

Denis Gorce-Bourge

#4. We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#6. What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.

Oscar Lewis

#8. The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

Baldur Von Schirach

#9. The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

Camille Paglia

#10. Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#11. The machinery joining the vats was a nightmare jumble of pipes and flanges. Since you couldn't really hire a professional plumber to set up your deathtraps, some clever techie on Angus Caine's payroll must have done it himself with whatever parts he had on hand.

Craig Schaefer

#12. You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.

Sarra Manning